This article is about the block found in trees. For the block crafted from logs, see Planks. For the block that has the "bark" texture on all 6 sides, see Wood.

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I'd estimate that about 95 percent of my Minecraft worlds begin with me collecting a single block of Oak Wood. It's the mother-block - the block from which everything else in the game develops. Without collecting wood, it's almost impossible to play Minecraft. Seriously, try playing Minecraft without wood. It'll be about as much fun as playing blindfolded, or with me screaming "USE WOOD YOU FOOL!" into your ear the entire time.

Wood logs can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block. It is far more efficient to craft each log into four wood planks: each plank will burn as long as the log would have, for a total of 6 items.

Smelting log into charcoal is slightly better: each charcoal will smelt 8 items, but the charcoal itself needs to be smelted. The net items smelted therefore is 7. Also, the increased need to load and unload items will usually result in some loss of smelting time.

In Bedrock and Legacy Console editions, oak, spruce, birch, and jungle log and wood have the ID name minecraft:log and are further defined by their block data or block state.
Acacia and dark oak log and wood blocks have the ID name minecraft:log2 and are further defined by their block data or block state.

Note that when a log is placed, it changes its facing parameters, placing in the direction relative to the block it is placed on.

Logs only consider the axis; a sideways log placed while facing north will not have a top texture rotated 180 degrees from a log placed south.[2]

Please remove this notice once you've added suitable images to the article. The specific instructions are: x- and z-axis renders of 1.14 log texture changes, logs rendered with top texture changes in all 3 orientations, and renders of glitched logs from old PlayStation 3 Edition versions (a link to a video of most but not all of these is provided below, however, glitch blocks such as are still missing from it)

Dark oak and acacia logs previously shared‌[Java Edition only] or currently do share‌[Bedrock Edition only] a block ID separate from the old logs, called log2, because all the other data values on the previous log block were occupied by rotated variants (red sandstoneslabs suffered a similar fate). There are still 8 remaining data values on the block that cannot be obtained.‌[Bedrock Edition only]

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